The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-16
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm ana Garden Notes
Mixing milk is considered injurious to
the yield of butter.
In preparing products for market, try
to please purchasers.
Put dwelling and outbuildings in
order for the coming winter.
A few bruised apples in barrel may
spoil the whole before the winter is over.
A judicious raking and..burning of the
rubbish on the farm will destroy many
insects.
A clover root in the soil is the prom
ise of increased fertility, and no farm
ever had too many of them.
Turnips are excellent for sheep. In
England the sheep and the turnips are
considered the rent-payers.
Keep the chickens on clear runs and
away from the manure heaps, if you
want them to be free from gapes.
As few acres well titled is best for
the cultiyator, so small herd we'll
cared for is best for the stockman
If the bottom lands arc dry enough
old bitches should be cleaned out and
new ones opened where required.
The manure cropis one of the most
valuable on the farm, yet how many
are prone to allow it to go to waste!
Don't burn the straw if there is any
stock in your neighborhood, for much
better use can be made OF it this year.
Many farmer pays out large sums
for fertilizers, while he allows his own
barnyard to run to waste. Poor policy.
An evergreen hedge is an excellent
shelter for hens, whether it be hot or
cold, and hence good summer or winter.
Plymouth Rocks, both as chicks and
mature fowls, are claimed to be scarcely
equaled by any other breed for hardi!
ness.
Spaded in among the roots of trees
wood ashes will kill the insect eggs har-
bored there. It is also an excellent fer
tilizer.
Diaries, in many sections, use plenty
of corn meal and mill feed, owing to the
remunerative prices for butter and
cheese.
Keep the ground open around fruit
trees until they are ready to bear. Be-
lect such crops to be grown near them
as require frequent hoeing.
1t may not be known that sheep left
in the pasture all night with other cattle
are seldom injured by dogs. They will
be friendly with any animal that is kind
to them, so that the cattle serve as
protection.
The Poultry Yard points out two dam
gerous periods in the growth of young
chicks, when they require very nourish-
ing food: First, when about two or three
weeks old, with the plumage making
rapid growth; second, when they begin
to put off their first feathers and assume
their mature plumage.
The sensible farmer will provide COM
Portable quarters for his poultry as
surely as for his horses or COWS. He will
see that they are well ventilated, free
from rat invaders, sunny and large
enough for the number of fowls he pro-
poses to keep. He will not forget to pro-
vide sand for them to dust in.
Trimming an apple tree does not
mean that one must go into the orchard
and hack away with an axe and saw
simply to cut away certain proportion
of wood, but the trees should be evenly
trimmed and no limbs removed except
such as may benefit the by being cut
off. Where limb has commenced to
decay it should be removed, however, as
it may be caused by disease. Especially
is this necessary with pear trees, which
are subject to blight.
If the stems of fruit trees are wrapped
with old newspapers mice and rabbits
will not gnaw the bark. Another and
more permanent safeguard is to mix
COW dung with thick lime wash and add
enough carbolic acid to it to give it a
strong odor and paint this on the trees M
for three feet above the ground. This
will also exclude the borers, whose eggs
will be killed by it as they are laid upon
the bark, or the parents of the grubs
will not deposit eggs upon the trees so
treated.